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| 2008-03-26 |
| Note the multiple earthquakes in western China. Zoom in. The zone is south and east of Hotan, China. Now use Google Earth to look up Hotan, China. Zoom in, check the orange dot to the south east. See the note? An 'Interesting Village' indeed. A wide riverbed between two mountain ranges pockmarked by blast craters. Blast craters that look as nicely spaced as those of the nuclear test site in Mercury, Nevada. With events during the past week providing enough yield to register as a 7.2 earthquake. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #15 Moose. Look at the details. Depth 14.2 miles (poorly constrained) Location uncertainty horizontal +/- 6.6 km (4.1 miles); depth +/- 24.8 km (15.4 miles) It wasn't a crust cracker. The measurement error puts it on the surface. Wonder which way the wind was blowing. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2008-03-26 19:59 |
| #14 Yep. Well, so OK. More than 10 measured near surface quakes, in the last week, ranging from 2.7-7.2, in a geographic zone which imagery suggests has been used as a giant fart pan. Details reported from independent sources and collaborated by players in this council. Oh, and the US 'admits' to sending nuclear triggers to Taiwan, just this week. Huh. Maybe it's not nukes. Maybe they just punched a hole thru the crust. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2008-03-26 19:40 |
| #13 Waitasec. Nukes make a nice little poof underground, but that is nothing compared to the energy released in a 7.2 quake. Remember that the Richter scale is base-10 logarithmic scale. That is, you can reproduce a 1.0 earthquake with 70 lbs. of TNT. A 2.0 earthquake with 1 metric TON of TNT. A 3.0 with 32 metric tons. A 4.0 with 1 kiloton of TNT. 5.0 == 32 kilotons. 6.0 == 1 megaton. 7.0 == 50 megatons, the size of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever built. (magnitude seen on seismographs reduced because it detonated 4 km in the atmosphere.) A 7.2 would be the largest continent-cracker ever created. I can't even imagine how deep underground that sucker would have to be for it to not break through. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-03-26 19:13 |
| #12 I typed in "Hotan, China", and got "Hetian", a village in Tibet on the southwest edge of the central plateau. From all my time in the Air Force, I know most of China's nuke testing was done around Lop Nor, in the Gobi desert. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-03-26 19:10 |
| #11 7.2 details http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008pvcl.php |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2008-03-26 19:03 |
| #10 Huh? China has had nukes for years Yes, I know, Crosspatch. Iblis' comment was ambiguous tho so I asked. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-26 18:56 |
| #9 GUAM > just had quakin' early this morning shortly after 0600A. Officially, its a "5.4" but its initial tremblin' felt bwtn 6-7.0 magn - FIRST AFTERSHOCK, however, did feel like a FIVEER-PLUS, SECOND was mag THREE-OR-UNDER. I did obeserve CONCRETE RIPPLES in certain spots on a side the local PDN/DNA News Building here in Hagatna, facing the Guam Public Library, during the above big one. The iconic PDN/DNA Building has been here in Hagatna since the early 1970's - I've told local Restaurant patrons that, iff they know whom the current owner or company-landlord is, for same to have the building checked for potential WEAK SPOTS in case of future event. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-26 18:47 |
| #8 Sam and I can use Google Earth just fine. Coordinates would still be helpful. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-03-26 17:33 |
| #7 Sorry you couldn't use the tool Sam. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2008-03-26 16:40 |
| #6 Taiwan, of course. Take invasion off the table. China would be free to court Taiwan, but not to threaten her. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2008-03-26 16:28 |
| #5 Huh? China has had nukes for years ... including the hydrogen bomb they first tested in 1967. Geez, folks. http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/China/ChinaTesting.html |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2008-03-26 14:04 |
| #4 Who should have nuclear weapons, Iblis - Taiwan or China? |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-26 14:02 |
| #3 Why dont you learn how to give a lat/long coord instead of "orange dots" Move along, nothing to see here. |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2008-03-26 13:36 |
| #2 Whether or not they actually do have nukes, I think it's clear that they should. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2008-03-26 12:19 |
| #1 Test range for missiles. Not necessarily nukes. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-03-26 08:56 |